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Mao: the man who made China

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One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more civilian deaths than perhaps any other historical figure. Now, four decades after Mao's death, acclaimed biographer Philip Short presents a fully updated and revised edition of his ground-breaking and masterly biography. Vivid, uncompromising and unflinching, Short presents in one-volume the man behind the propaganda - his family, his beliefs and his horrors. In doing so he shows us both the human being Mao was, and the monster he became.

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Series Title

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Call Number

922 SHO m

Publisher

London : Bloomsburry., 2022

Collation

819 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781350376724

Classification

900

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Carrier Type

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Edition

Ed. 1

Subject(s)

Biography

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Statement of Responsibility

Philip Short

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Level

High School

Book Segment

Reading for pleasure

Reading Level

Independent

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